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Testimony of NYU Furman Center Senior Fellow Mark Willis Before the Rent Guidelines Board

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

With the importance of preserving the city’s existing affordable housing stock, Willis outlined the challenge facing the RGB when looking to settle on annual increases due to a conflict between two legislative mandates that can be difficult to reconcile in the face of inflation. The first, maintaining affordability (e.g.,

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation. In doing so, they ensured these efforts to pass land banking enabling legislation were not wasted.

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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

The framework consists of questions, design principles, and best practices across the six pillars: Operational Excellence , Security , Reliability , Performance Efficiency , Cost Optimization , and Sustainability.

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America is at a crossroads with its infrastructure future

American City & Country

In response to these consequences, the ASCE released the Sustainable Infrastructure Standard, ASCE 73-23, a tool that provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle. It does not matter if it is climate change-related or man-made.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Decker, Andrew. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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‘Replace short haul flights with high speed rail’ say citizens around the world

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While sustainability factors may not drive how people travel – only an important factor to 14% – the research does show that respondents back green legislative interventions. The challenge now as an industry is to continue to grow seamless and sustainable rail travel at pace to meet this global demand.”

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

Adopting powerful technologies like generative AI must align with principles contained in the GC’s Responsible use of AI of lawful, ethical data usage and explainable outcomes to impacted individuals. A new $100,000 AWS community grant fund launched in 2023 supports Calgary sustainability initiatives. The AWS Cloud is 3.6 What’s next?